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Originally Posted by chaley
@Purple Lady: I think I know what might be happening. On an android device, main memory uses a "modern" file system that is fully capable of supporting arbitrary names. However, SD cards usually use FAT or FAT32, which has all sorts of strange rules. One rule is that files (directories) should (or perhaps must) not end in a period; one spec says that "trailing periods are ignored". The rule arises because of how FAT file systems treat file extensions. It appears that you are seeing the effects in that the names on the disk don't have the periods even though CC thinks they should.
The CC template processor removes trailing periods from the path, but it does not remove trailing periods from slash-separated segments in the path. This is arguably a bug, and a long-standing one at that.
I can fix it, but that will have the unfortunate consequence of changing paths for books in main memory. This can lead to books being duplicated. I don't see any way around it.
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On my Tab S most of my older books(May 2015) have an underscore instead of a period. It looks like more recent ones just dropped the period. I've always used the external SD for my books.
On my HD 8, I've been trying to make a backup of my books to the external SD. When I wiped the device and copied the books back to the internal storage and restored settings I had missing books. Now I know why.